Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-10-07
THE PROHIBITION COLUMN.
4 TRIED EXPERIMENT.

| 10 10 wrong no" perfect III Clool y
But when this very man began expert.
menting with it practically, he bought
his experience by making fatal mis-
takes. He was too much of an opti-
| mist to read human nature altogether
! truly. Or was it, that unscathed him
| self from its darts, he could not appre-
| ciate the force of Al-Shorei The old
Arabs named it right Al-Shcre "bad-
6end," from which according to some
philologists, we have our word alcohol.
Although he said it not until having
lived about seventy years i'll the world.
Gladstone must have been many years
thinking out his well-known maxim:
That "drink slavs more than war, fam
inc and pestilencc together When
he was quite young man he set hlm-
self tue task of tying the hands OF this
destroyer. 1t Was certainly by curl
Gus way, first was by giving it at one
fiat, $50 to speak, myriad hands. lie
fancied men drank, because the drink
was rather hard to get at, it was
hedsed round with good deal of red
tape regulation, and consequently did
not appear at every turn. Gladstone
accordingly got the "beer-act passed,
which gave facilities for beer houses,
Tor pot houses as they are often calledl)
to crop up, like fctid toadstoois, ON
every little village green IN every re-
tired hamlet, at almost every cross road
where traveller might ike to rest.
There was not nook where the mon
stcr did not. stretch these myriad hands.
And with what result! England be-
came more and more one of the most
drunken nations OH the face of the
earth. The "graad old man of today
forgot in the assumptions of his youth
the proycrb, what the eye doth not
see the heart doth not want. Ii Is
the truth Cf this provcrb. The word
not Of one man, but Of the people.
That lies at the root of this amend
ment campaign. 1t is to put away
the open Haunting tempting saloon that
the eampaignjsts are after 1t is not
\ to clear the state of all alcoholic liquids
at one swoop. Commerce is bound to
hold them still-to fill doctors pre-
scriptions, for certain mechanical par
poses and (as many christians believe)
for sacramental uses. 1t is not to
cure the old topper, who is as much dis
eased, as though he had an incurable
heart complaint In accordance with
Hehneman theory that"like cures like,
he will lie bound to have it i'll order to
effect his cure! 1t is not for his sake
that we beg for amendment votes.
He is tottering OH the brink of the
grave anyhow, and the grave will soon
hold him, amendment or no amend
ment. Il is for our boys, that they
may have tie temptation of the open
saloon removed from their paths, before
they learn to 90 in and out, losing their
precious will-power, sullying all that Is
noble and glorious in stheir manhood,
and defacing the body, which was
meant for Gods temple. There is not
more than one man in hundred, who
will llattr,bute his fall to that mysterious,
inherited craving. The ninety ty-nine
will tell you it was the sociabiiity of
the thing made them take to drink.
I They just went in with friends to have
good time, and that was all. The
! saloonist knows well how to cater for
this gregarious instinct in young men.
lie has his billiard table, arranges his
card parties, hires the musician, and Is
good company himself. While he often
ponders to..a lower instinct, and intro
/ duces the .dancing'sirl of low character
as farther attraction in order to get
his whisky sold and his pockets lined.
Alas for his poor soft dupcs, not so
wary as the birds that will not he
| caught by the trap i'll sight. Their
chains are soon forged for them, that
bind them body and soul, until they
can neither rise nor fly away. Now
| why arc we, with open eyes, to suffer
| our sons land our daughters, for they
| suffer although, thank God not in
propria PERSONA to he thus invcisled
and entrarped! And just because a
| certain set of men make it their craft
| to swindlc them out of their manhood
and their money. Surely i'll this
America where the laws arc made "by
the people and for the people, " the peo-
pie will not suffer themselves to be
hoodwinked by this liquor craft. Rest
assured it is this liquor-craft til at is
hoodwinking you week after week in
the pages of the Oregonian. Count up
the liquor ads. and if you arc keen
| enough the ads of the Portland men
| in league with the liquor craft, and
you viii see why the Oregonian sings
different song than he did when dis
gusted with the election, he was going